Beauty retouching
In this section, I will show you how to correct the tones, imperfections, and look of a simple beauty shot, step by step. In this process, you'll learn how to use the Clone Stamp tool, one of the original and incredibly powerful retouching tools in Photoshop Elements, as well as the amazing Burn, Dodge, and Sponge brush tools (but mostly Dodge and Sponge) that I consider to be among the many unsung heroes of this application.
The Clone Stamp tool explained
The Clone Stamp tool is one of the original retouching tools handed down from Adobe Photoshop in the years before it was Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC).
Essentially, this is nothing more than a copy-and-paste tool. If any of you have had the opportunity to copy and paste a paragraph of text from one part of a Word document to another part, you'll be able to use this tool. It's exactly the same principle, but because you are also dealing with color, texture, and tone in an image, the process...